FixedIt is a project I started in 2015. It was born of frustration with the then constant victim-blaming and erasure of perpetrators from media headlines about men’s violence against women.
At the time media headlines were full of “scorned lovers” who raped women they claimed to love, “good fathers” who killed their children, and adults who had “sexual relationships” with children they were abusing.
Nearly ten years later, after hundreds of fixed headlines, a book, a Ted Talk, dozens of speaking engagements and several training sessions, those headlines have not gone away.
Habits die hard and victim-blaming attitudes are stubbornly persistent. Change is slow, but it is happening. I don’t see nearly as many “scorned lovers” or “good blokes” kill their partners and children. They’ve (mostly) stopped describing men who sexually abuse children has having “sexual relationships” with their victims.
That doesn’t mean Fixed It is over. I wish it was. But as you can see from the posts below, there is more to do.
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The Australian threw together another entry for the numpty journalism awards with a terrifying headline…
Violent men have sexually assaulted more than half our promising young women and we’re still hiding rapists behind buildings. Just. Stop.